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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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CALCULUS FOR SELF-REFERENCE 2)

CALCULUS OF INDICATIONS 2)

CANTOR SET (Triadic) 2)

CAPSULATION 1)2)

CARRYING CAPACITY 1)

CASSANDRA's SYNDROME 1)4)

CATABOLISM 1)

CATALYSIS 1)5)

CATALYSIS (Auto-) 2)

CATALYSIS (Cross-) 2)

CATALYSIS (Self) 2)

CATASTROPHE 2)3)

CATASTROPHE (Delayed) 2)

CATASTROPHE THEORY 2)3)

CATCHMENT 1)2)

CATEGORIES FORMATION 3)

CATEGORIES (Relativity of) 3)

CATEGORIZATION 1)3)

CATEGORY 3)

CATWOE 2)

CAUSAL EXPLANATION 3)

CAUSAL LOOP 1)2)3)

CAUSAL PROCESS (Mutual) 1)2)

CAUSALITY 3)

CAUSALITY (ARISTOTELIAN) 1)3)

CAUSALITY (Circular)

CAUSALITY (Cyclic) 2)3)

CAUSALITY (Limits to) 3)

CAUSALITY (Linear) 2)3)

CAUSALITY (Multiple) 1)

CAUSALITY (Mutual) 1)2)

CAUSALITY (Principle of absolute) 3)

CAUSATION (Downward) 1)2)

CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES DIAGRAM 2)

CAUTION PRINCIPLE 1)4)

CELL 2)5)

CELL 2 1)2)

CELLULAR ARRAY 2)

CELLULAR AUTOMATA ARRAY 2)

CENTRALIZATION 2)

CENTRALIZATION (Progressive) 1)2)

CENTRALIZATION versus DECENTRALIZATION 1)4)

CHAIN REACTION 1)

CHANCE 3)

CHANGE 1)

CHANGE AGENTS 1)4)

CHANGE (Forms of) 1)2)

CHANGE (Incremental)

CHANGE (Principle of nonproportional) 1)2)

CHANGE (Propagation of) 1)2)

CHANGE (Rates of) 1)

CHANGE (Second Order) 1)

CHANNEL 1)

CHANNEL and NET 1)2)

CHANNEL CAPACITY 2)

CHANNELS (Cost of) 1)

CHAOS 1)2)3)

CHAOS (Anti-) 1)

CHAOS (Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered System) 1)

CHAOS (Computability of) 5)

CHAOS (Control of) 1)2)

CHAOS (Deterministic) 1)2)

CHAOS (Edge of) 2)

CHAOS (Free will and) 1)3)

CHAOS: Historical meaning 1)

CHAOS (Onset of) 2)

CHAOS (Weak) 1)2)

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS

CHAOTIC SYSTEM 1)

CHAOTIC SYSTEM (Stabilization of a) 2)

CHEMOTAXIS 5)

CHESS AS A DESTRUCTIVE DYNAMIC GAME 2)5)

CHINA IN SYSTEMS SCIENCE 1)

CHINA-JAPAN-UK. Systems Project 1)

CHINESE SYSTEMS CONCEPTS AND METHODOLOGIES 1)

CHIRALITY 2)5)

CHLADNI FIGURES 2)5)

CHOICE 1)

CHOICE as a systemic topic 1)4)

CHOICE (Random) 2)

CHOROPLETH 5)

CHREOD 2)

CHREOD (Archetypal) 1)2)4)

CHRISTMAS TREE EFFECT 1)

CHRONOCENTRISM 1)3)

CHRONOTOPE 2)3)

CHRYZODES 2)

CHUNKING 2)

CINDYNICS 5)

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM 5)

CIRCUIT (Causal) 1)2)

CIRCUIT (Closed) 1)2)

CIRCUITS (Degenerative – Regenerative) 1)2)

CIRCULARITY 1)2)3)

CLADISTIC ANALYSIS 2)5)

CLANTHINK 1)4)

CLASS 1)

CLASSIFICATION 3)

CLASSIFIER 2)

CLIMAX 5)

CLOSURE 3)

CLOSURE (Statistical) 2)

CLUB OF BUDAPEST 1)

CLUB OF ROME 4)

CLUE 1)2)

CLUMPERS and SPLITIERS 1)3)

CLUSTER 1)2)

CLUSTER ANALYSIS 2)

CLUSTERING 2)

CO-ADAPTATION

COALESCENCE 1)

COALITION 1)4)

CODE 1)2)

CODE (Analogic) 2)

CODE CONSTRUCTION (In human conversation) 4)

CODE CREATION 1)2)

CODE (Digital) 2)5)

CODE DUALITY 2)

CODES (Linguistic and Semantic) 3)4)

CODING 2)

CODING (Selective) 2)

COGNITION 1)3)

COGNITIVE BLINDSPOT 3)

COGNITIVE COMPRESSION 3)

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE 3)

COGNITIVE MAP 1)3)4)

COGNITIVE MAPS (Societal) 1)4)

COGNITIVE MODEL 3)

COGNITIVE OVERLOAD 1)3)

COGNITIVE PANORAMA 1)2)

COGNITIVE PROCESS 1)3)

COGNITIVE RINGS 3)4)

COGNITIVE SCIENCE 3)

COGNITIVE SIMULATOR 3)

COGNITIVE SPACES 1)

COGNITIVE SYSTEM 3)

COHERENCE 1)

COHERENCE CONDITION 1)2)

COHERENT ORGANIZATION

COHESION 2)4)

COHESIVENESS 2)4)

COHORT 2)4)

COLLAPSE 1)

COLLECTIONS 2)

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR 4)

COLLECTIVE BEINGS 1)4)

COLLECTIVE OBSERVER

COLONY 1)4)

COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS 2)5)

COMBINATORICS 5)

COMMAND 1)

COMMENSALISM 1)5)

COMMON SENSE 1)4)

COMMONS 1)4)

COMMUNICATION 1)2)

COMMUNICATION and BEHAVIOR 1)4)

COMMUNICATION as CONTEXT depending 1)2)

COMMUNICATION (Cost of) 5)

COMMUNICATION (Failure in human) 4)

COMMUNICATION (Human) 4)

COMMUNICATION (Layers of) 1)

COMMUNICATION (Line of) 1)4)

COMMUNICATION (Meta-) 4)

COMMUNICATION (Physical) 5)

COMMUNICATION PROCESS and MEANING 3)4)

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (Physical) 5)

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (Human) 4)

COMMUNICATION THEORY 1)3)5)

COMMUNICATIONAL MODES 4)

COMMUNICATOR 4)

COMMUNITIES (Types of Human) 4)

COMMUNITY 1)

COMMUNITY (Epistemic) 3)4)

COMMUNITY (Learning)

COMMUNITY (Evolutionary learning community)

COMMUTATION 2)

COMPARATOR 2)

COMPARTMENTATION 2)

COMPATIBILITY 1)4)

COMPETENCE 4)

COMPETENCE (Communicative) 4)

COMPETITION 2)4)

COMPETITIVE ASYMMETRY 2)4)

COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE 2)5)

COMPILER 5)

COMPLEMENTARITY 2)

COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE (BOHR) 2)3)5)

COMPLETION FROM WITHOUT Principle 3)

COMPLEX PHENOMENON 2)

COMPLEX (Supremacy of the) 1)2)

COMPLEX SYSTEM 1)

COMPLEXIFICATION 1)4)

COMPLEXITY 1)

COMPLEXITY: A broader view 1)

COMPLEXITY (Accumulative) 2)4)

COMPLEXITY (Algorithmic) 2)

COMPLEXITY (Algorithmic)

COMPLEXITY (AIorithmically incompressible) 2)3)

COMPLEXITY as perceived 1)3)

COMPLEXITY (BOULDING's 8 levels of) 1)

COMPLEXITY (Conceptual framework for) 3)

COMPLEXITY (Degree of) 2)

COMPLEXITY (Factors of) 1)2)

COMPLEXITY from noise principle 2)

COMPLEXITY (Laws of) 1)3)

COMPLEXITY (Limits to) 1)

COMPLEXITY (Mathematics of)

COMPLEXITY (Multi-level vs multivariate) 2)

COMPLEXITY of systems 1)

COMPLEXITY (Organized) 1)2)

COMPLEXITY REDUCTION 2)

COMPLEXITY THEORY 1)2)

COMPLEXITY THRESHOLD 1)2)

COMPLEXITY (Time Dimension of) 2)

COMPLEXITY (Unorganized) 2)

COMPLEXITY (Unwarranted) 2)3)

COMPLEXITY versus SIMPLICITY 1)3)

COMPLICATED VERSUS COMPLEX 1)2)

COMPLICATION (Principle of) 1)2)

COMPONENT 1)

COMPONENT (Central) 1)

COMPONENTS (Complexity in) 1)2)

COMPONENTS (Cooperative) 2)

COMPONENTS (New) 2)

COMPONENTS (Unreliable) 2)

COMPOSITE SYSTEM 1)2)

COMPRESSIBILITY 1)3)

COMPUTATION (Concepts of) 2)

COMPUTER: Analog or Digital; 5)

COMPUTER (Connectionist) 5)

COMPUTER in systems science 1)3)

COMPUTER MODELS 1)3)

COMPUTERS: Serial and parallel 5)

CONATION 2)3)

CONCATENATION 1)2)

CONCENTRATION 1)4)5)

CONCEPT 3)4)

CONCEPT AND PERCEPT 3)

CONCEPT (Components of a) 3)

CONCEPT (Context-dependent) 3)

CONCEPT CROSSING 1)3)

CONCEPTUAL BLOCKING 4)

CONCEPTUAL MODEL 2)

CONCEPTUAL SITUATION 3)

CONCEPTUAL SPACE 3)4)

CONDENSATION 2)

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES MATRIX 2)

CONDITIONED REFLEX

CONDITIONS (Initial) 1)2)

CONFIGURATION 3)

CONFIGURATION (Initial) 2)5)

CONFIGURATOR 2)

CONFIRMATION 3)

CONFLICT: Some proposed systemic views 4)

CONFLUENT 2)

CONFORMATION 1)

CONGERIES 2)

CONGLOMERATE 1)2)

CONGRUENCE (Structural) 3)4)

CONJUNCTION 1)2)

CONNECTANCE 2)4)

CONNECTANCE 2)

CONNECTED COMPONENT 2)

CONNECTEDNESS 2)

CONNECTEDNESS (Degree of) 1)2)

CONNECTEDNESS (Excess of) 1)2)4)

CONNECTION 1)2)

CONNECTION MACHINE 5)

CONNECTION MODES 2)

CONNECTION (System forming) 1)

CONNECTIONISM 1)5)

CONNECTIONS (A Classification of) 1)2)

CONNECTIONS RIGIDITY 1)2)

CONNECTIVE SYSTEM 1)2)

CONNECTIVITY 1)2)

CONNECTOR 2)

CONNEXITY 2)

CONNOTATION 1)3)

CONSCIOUSNESS 3)4)

CONSCIOUSNESS (Economy in) 3)

CONSCIOUSNESS (Evolutionary and Planetary) 1)4)

CONSENSUS 1)4)

CONSENSUS AND COMPLEXITY UNDERSTANDING 1)4)

CONSENSUS AND CONSENSUALITY 3)4)

CONSENSUS METHODOLOGIES 1)4)

CONSERVATION LAW 2)5)

CONSILIENCE 2)

CONSISTENCY 2)4)

CONSTANCY 2)

CONSTRAINT 1)2)

CONSTRAINT ANALYSIS 2)

CONSTRAINT (Dynamical) 2)

CONSTRAINT (Emerging) 2)

CONSTRAINT (Hierarchical) 1)

CONSTRAINT (Second order) 2)

CONSTRAINT THRESHOLD 2)

CONSTRAINTS (Antagonistic) 2)

CONSTRAINTS (Cognitive) 1)4)

CONSTRAINTS: (Internal and external) 1)2)3)

CONSTRAINTS (Self-generated) 1)2)

CONSTRUCT 3)

CONSTRUCTIONISM 1)

CONSTRUCTIVISM 1)3)4)

CONSTRUCTIVIST CYBERNETICS (Epistemology of) 3)

CONSTRUCTS (Conceptual) 3)

CONSTRUCTS (Synchronous) 1)2)4)

CONTENT 1)2)

CONTENTION 5)

CONTEXT 1)2)

CONTEXT DEPENDENCE 3)

CONTEXT (Evolving) 1)2)4)

CONTEXT (Internal) 1)2)

CONTEXT MARKER 3)4)

CONTEXT (Meaning through) 3)

CONTEXT NEGLECT 2)3)

CONTEXT OF CONTEXT 3)

CONTEXT (Relevant) 3)

CONTEXT (Repeatable) 1)

CONTEXT SENSITIVITY 3)

CONTEXT-FREE ELEMENTS 1)3)5)

CONTEXTS (Psychological) 1)2)3)

CONTEXTUAL IMPLICATION 3)

CONTIGUITY 2)

CONTINGENCY 3)

CONTINGENCY (Mutual) 3)4)

CONTINUITY 1)2)

CONTINUOUS – DISCONTINUOUS 2)3)

CONTRACTION 2)

CONTROL 1)2)

CONTROL 1)2)

CONTROL (Alert) 4)

CONTROL: basic elements.(its five) 2)

CONTROL BY ERROR 2)5)

CONTROL by RECURSION 2)

CONTROL (Chaotic) 1)2)

CONTROL (Forms of) 2)

CONTROL (Hierarchic) 1)2)

CONTROL (Intrinsic) 2)4)

CONTROL MECHANISM 2)4)

CONTROL MECHANISMS (Problems in) 2)4)

CONTROL (Multi-determinated) 2)4)

CONTROL (Negative) 2)4)

CONTROL OF and CONTROL FOR 1)2)4)

CONTROL OR CONSTRAINT 2)3)

CONTROL (Positive) 1)2)4)

CONTROL (Programmed) 4)

CONTROL SPACE 2)

CONTROL (Symbolic) 2)4)

CONTROL SYSTEM (Characteristics of a ) 2)

CONTROL SYSTEM (in living systems) 1)2)5)

CONTROL (Time factor in) 2)

CONTROL (Time-Lag in) 2)

CONTROLLER 2)

CONTROLLER (Adaptive) 1)2)4)

CONTROLLER (Automatic) 2)

CONTROLLER (Imitative) 2)

CONTROLLER (Overall) 2)

CONTROLLER (Predictive) 2)

CONTROLLERS (Hierarchies of) 1)2)

CONVERGENCE 1)2)4)

CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN THE BRAIN 2)5)

CONVERSATION 1)4)

CONVERSATIONAL DOMAIN 1)

CONVERSATION (Reflective)

CONVERTER 1)2)

COOPERATION 1)

COOPERATION as an evolutive process 1)2)

COOPERATIVE STRUCTURE 1)2)

CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS

COOPERATIVITY 2)

COORDINATION 1)2)4)

COORIENTATION 1)2)4)

COPRODUCER 2)

CORE (Frozen) 2)

CORPUSCULAR ADDITIVITY IN SYSTEMS 2)

CORRELATION 2)

CORRELATION AND CAUSALITY 1)3)

CORRELATION DEVICE 1)2)

CORRELATION DIMENSION 2)

CORRELATION (Directive) 2)

CORRELATION LENGTH 2)

CORRELATION (Potential directive) 1)2)

CORRELATION (Spurious) 1)

CORRELATIONS (Complex) 2)

CORRELATIONS (HIERARCHIES of directive) 2)

CORRESPONDENCE PRINCIPLE 3)

COST 1)2)4)

COUNTER-INTUITIVE BEHAVIOR 1)3)

COUPLING (De-) 2)

COUPLING (Degrees of) 2)

COUPLING (Excessive) 1)2)

COUPLING (Loose) 1)2)

COUPLING (Structural) 1)3)

COUPLINGS between two elements 2)

CO-VARIANCE

COVERING-LAW MODEL 3)

CREATION (CO-) 1)2)

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION 1)2)5)

CREATIVITY 1)2)3)

CREDIT ASSIGNMENT 1)5)

CREEPING PROBLEMS 1)4)

CRISIS 1)2)

CRISIS SYMPTOMS IN HUMAN SYSTEMS 4)

CRITERION 2)3)

CRITICAL DIMENSION

CRITICAL EFFECT 1)2)

CRITICAL EVENT 2)

CRITICAL FLUCTUATION 2)

CRITICAL PATH 2)5)

CRITICAL POINT 2)

CRITICAL SLOPE 2)

CRITICAL STAGE 2)

CRITICAL STATE 2)

CRITICAL STATE (Sub, super-) 2)

CRITICAL VALUE 1)2)

CRITICALITY 1)2)

CRITICALITY AND PERCOLATION 1)2)

CRITICALITY (Self-organized) 1)2)

CROSS FALSIFICATION

CROSS LEVEL RESEARCH (in living systems) 1)3)

CROSSBAR 2)

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY 1)3)

CROSS-IMPACT 2)

CROWD PHYSICS 2)5)

CROWDING EFFECTS 1)4)

CRUNCH 1)2)4)

CUE 1)2)

CUES (SOCIAL) 4)

CULTURAL FEASIBILITY

CULTURE 4)

CULTURES AS SYSTEMS 4)

CULTUROCENTRISM 1)4)

CURVE (Involving) 2)

CUSP 2)

CYBERNATION 1)

CYBERNETICS 1)3)

CYBERNETICS (First and Second Order) 1)

CYBERNETICS (First Order) or CYBERNETICS (1st) 1)3)

CYBERNETICS (Second) 1)

CYBERNETICS (Social)

CYBERNETICS (Technical) 5)

CYBERNETICS (The scope of) 1)3)

CYBERSEMIOTICS 1)3)

CYBERSPACE 5)

CYCLE 1)2)

CYCLE and STRUCTURE 1)2)

CYCLE (Catalytic)

CYCLE (Cumulative) 1)2)

CYCLE (EquilibriaI) 2)

CYCLE (Functional) 2)5)

CYCLE, in a network 2)

CYCLE (Inclusion) 2)

CYCLE (Internal) 1)3)5)

CYCLE (Life) 1)2)

CYCLE (Limit) 2)

CYCLE (Recurrent) 2)

CYCLE (Stable) 2)

CYCLE (Stable limit) 2)

CYCLE TIME (Endogenous) 2)

CYCLES (Pseudo-) 2)

CYCLIC ORDER 2)

CYCLICAL or PERIODIC? 1)

CYCLICITY

CYCLING RECEPTOR (or module) 2)

CYCLOGENESIS 1)2)

CYCLOMORPHIC 1)2)

Categories

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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